The Italian Renaissance garden incorporates the villa they are stationed near into its design. Many aspects of the garden reflect the ideals of the Renaissance flooding through society; this flooding led to overflow into homes and, subsequently, gardens. Such aspects include the revival of classical antiquity, evident in the typical appearance of statues portraying characters from classical Grecian or Roman mythology, and archways and columns, and in La Pietra’s case, even a mini temple and theatre. Some gardens used excavated Roman sculptures that may have been restored, modified, or even displayed in fragments. More often than not, new works were commissioned in the classical style depicting a variety of gods, goddesses, and fantastic creatures
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The Italian Renaissance garden changed that by tearing down those walls and therefore connecting the garden, house, and outside landscape. The major difference between the Medieval gardens and the Renaissance gardens was that the Renaissance gardens implemented a central axis and used linear perspective to link the buildings, parts of the garden, and outside landscape. The axis organized and unified the entirety of the garden, which usually splits off into multiple smaller, symmetrical, sections. The idea was that all of nature was connected and by being connected to nature (as the gardens were connected to the buildings on the axis) you would be more connected to God. Coming off this main axis was another axis running perpendicular to it to divide the garden into smaller subsections. The compartments were then divided with even more cross paths to produce a grid pattern similar to many modern cities, most commonly these sections were squares or rectangles. A lot of Renaissance study was dedicated to both attempting to discover geometric patterns in nature and then attempting to recreate these patterns in art, architecture, and garden design. Renaissance gardens tend to have a flair for the dramatic and are often placed in such a way to offer dramatic views of the surrounding landscape in a way to acknowledge the wonder of …show more content…
They are are also planned and designed to feel as though it is one unit it connection with the house, though very few examples of the house and garden being linked by two parallel axes can be found outside of Italy. English Renaissance gardens are also divided into smaller, symmetrical sections. Clipped hedges are the signature of an English style garden. The roots of the Formal English Garden can actually be traced back to early Roman times, just as the roots of the Italian Renaissance gardens can be. Formal English Gardens, as we know them today, came about around the 1740’s. These gardens were a more relaxed version of the formal, symmetrical, and meticulously ordered gardens of the French Renaissance. In the later 1800’s, the gardens took a turn back to a more formal, symmetrical shape. The English Garden of today often mixes the elements seen in the Italian and French Renaissance gardens with the slightly more relaxed English Gardens of the 1700’s. Formal English gardens focus on presenting an idealized view of nature. English Renaissance gardens also draw heavily upon classical elements from Grecian and Roman antiquity. English Renaissance gardens tend to incorporate lakes ponds or streams that closely resemble the natural state of these bodies of water. They also have groves or clumps of trees and large lawns. Similarly to the Italian Renaissance gardens, they incorporate
The Italian Renaissance garden changed that by tearing down those walls and therefore connecting the garden, house, and outside landscape. The major difference between the Medieval gardens and the Renaissance gardens was that the Renaissance gardens implemented a central axis and used linear perspective to link the buildings, parts of the garden, and outside landscape. The axis organized and unified the entirety of the garden, which usually splits off into multiple smaller, symmetrical, sections. The idea was that all of nature was connected and by being connected to nature (as the gardens were connected to the buildings on the axis) you would be more connected to God. Coming off this main axis was another axis running perpendicular to it to divide the garden into smaller subsections. The compartments were then divided with even more cross paths to produce a grid pattern similar to many modern cities, most commonly these sections were squares or rectangles. A lot of Renaissance study was dedicated to both attempting to discover geometric patterns in nature and then attempting to recreate these patterns in art, architecture, and garden design. Renaissance gardens tend to have a flair for the dramatic and are often placed in such a way to offer dramatic views of the surrounding landscape in a way to acknowledge the wonder of …show more content…
They are are also planned and designed to feel as though it is one unit it connection with the house, though very few examples of the house and garden being linked by two parallel axes can be found outside of Italy. English Renaissance gardens are also divided into smaller, symmetrical sections. Clipped hedges are the signature of an English style garden. The roots of the Formal English Garden can actually be traced back to early Roman times, just as the roots of the Italian Renaissance gardens can be. Formal English Gardens, as we know them today, came about around the 1740’s. These gardens were a more relaxed version of the formal, symmetrical, and meticulously ordered gardens of the French Renaissance. In the later 1800’s, the gardens took a turn back to a more formal, symmetrical shape. The English Garden of today often mixes the elements seen in the Italian and French Renaissance gardens with the slightly more relaxed English Gardens of the 1700’s. Formal English gardens focus on presenting an idealized view of nature. English Renaissance gardens also draw heavily upon classical elements from Grecian and Roman antiquity. English Renaissance gardens tend to incorporate lakes ponds or streams that closely resemble the natural state of these bodies of water. They also have groves or clumps of trees and large lawns. Similarly to the Italian Renaissance gardens, they incorporate